Self-Care Society

Horticultural Therapist Andi Yates shares how her professional headshot doesn't align with her professional identity, and how she uses plants to heal people in surprising ways!

In this podcast, we will talk about the importance of boundaries as part of our self-care. 

In this Podcast, two MSW Graduate students share how they handle managing the rigors of school and provide tips for stress management.

In this podcast episode, you will learn about the value of being patient while learning to love yourself. Giving yourself the time and grace to discover what works best for you, might be the starting point you've been looking for. 

In this podcast, Michelle Stobart shares her journey from growing up in a low-income family in southeast Ohio to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the field of alternative health. She reminds us that the choices we make are OURS to make, whether it be going to law school or becoming a healer.

In this podcast, you will learn to focus your time, energy, and emotions on situations that you have control over versus things you do not have control over.

In this Episode, Nancy Schell shares her journey through retirement and the loss of her soulmate and shares how those life changes affected the "real Nancy." Join us to hear how a community-oriented extravert learned to dig deeper into herself and turned inward as she has aged.

Happy New Year to everyone that did and did not make resolutions! In this episode, Ashley provides two alternatives to traditional New Year's resolutions.

Some of us have experienced trauma from earlier child abuse or neglect, a sexual assault, past domestic violence/intimate partner violence, or past sexual trafficking. Trauma festers within us and inhibits our ability to be happy and to fully embrace our lives and live up to our full potential. Let's make 2023 the year when we focus on our own healing so that we can experience genuine joy and...

Ruth Dudding, the Athens City County Health Department Director of Community Health and Engagement talks about how her love for her community and work helped her during the COVID pandemic, and some of her missteps along the way.

The holidays are times of enjoyment and fun; however they can be stressful as well. I will be discussing ways to manage stress with tips on how to navigate holiday stress.

In this episode Ashley explains overstimulation during the busy holiday season and shares self-care tips and tricks to help us enjoy one party at a time. 

Going into the new year, let's focus on how to improve ourselves so that we show up as the best version of ourselves in 2023. 

Being able to trust friends, family members, and intimate partners can greatly benefit us socially and emotionally. However, trusting in the wrong people can cause us great stress. This episode discusses trust, who to trust and not to trust, and how to make the determination.

University student shares her journey from being a high-performing perfectionist to learning how to be imperfect with compassion and self-love.

Self-care techniques can be culturally specific. Different cultures and countries from around the world have culturally specific self-care methods. Thank you for listening.

In this episode Celia and Ashley share tips on using self-care to navigate the sometimes-stressful holiday season. 

In this episode, Celia and Ashley discuss how the types of self-care change along with the seasons. Thank you for listening. 

Families often shape our attitudes and beliefs about ourselves and about life. They can also have a tremendous impact on the way we see ourselves and others in the world. In this episode, we help identify some unspoken family rules, roles, and patterns and discuss ways to break unhealthy family patterns and cycles to become the best version of ourselves.  

Taking care of oneself is a deeply personal experience that is tied to our history, upbringing, and culture. Host Louie Guardiola discusses, with a first-generation Latina Community Health worker, ways they engage in self care through the lens of a Latinex upbringing, history, and culture.   

Welcome to the fourth episode of the self-care society podcast. In this episode, our host Ashley Cutcher discusses the importance of healthy relationships and ways of practicing them.  Self-care is not only the relationship we have with ourselves and what we do for ourselves, but the relationships we have around us and how we are feeding them, and receiving nourishment from them. Five important el...

In this episode, Kerri Shaw interviews a guest about their journey to achieving their professional goals. The guest also shares stories of their real-life struggles to reach the place they have always wanted to be and how they collaborated with other professionals and maintained a healthy work-life balance in their life. 

It has been argued that we really only have two emotions. Love and fear. Every other emotion falls under these two emotions. To lead a joyful and fulfilling life, we must focus on living life through the lens of love instead of fear. The cost of a fear-based life is expensive because it costs us our dreams, happiness, and fulfillment of our goals. Indeed,  it is difficult to succeed when fear is o...

All too often we listen to the highlighted REEL of a successful life and wonder why ours is fraught with problems, barriers, and struggle. On this first episode of the Self-Care Society Podcast the four hosts introduce themselves and discuss their success in life in what they refer to as their highlighted REEL. They then discuss their REAL life struggles and messiness while getting there. It'...